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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
prerequisite
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
essential
▪ That would be an essential prerequisite for any United Nations force being asked to take over a policing operation.
▪ They consider that an exchange of information on this problem is an essential prerequisite.
▪ An essential prerequisite for this work will be the definition of the directly implementable subsets of occam.
▪ This issue of number portability is considered an essential prerequisite to competition.
▪ Second, the process of increasing self-awareness is itself an essential prerequisite for emotional health.
▪ Therefore self-observation is an essential prerequisite for his tack.
▪ Control was merely the essential prerequisite to constructive administration.
▪ The existence of expanding and contracting directions is an essential prerequisite for chaotic behaviour in dissipative systems of this sort.
functional
▪ These needs are known as functional prerequisites.
▪ The major functions of social institutions are those which help to meet the functional prerequisites of society.
▪ A minimal degree of integration is therefore a functional prerequisite of society.
▪ They assume that society has certain basic needs or functional prerequisites which must be met if it is to survive.
▪ They therefore look to social stratification to see how far it meets these functional prerequisites.
▪ Thus a functional prerequisite of society involves at least a minimal degree of integration between the parts.
▪ One such functional prerequisite is effective role allocation and performance.
▪ The major institutions of society are justified by the belief that they are meeting the functional prerequisites of the social system.
necessary
▪ A number of different theories concerning the necessary prerequisites for the State have been proposed by anthropologists.
▪ Is a trace of insanity a necessary prerequisite for originality?
▪ However, the teaching of students is a necessary prerequisite of good patient care.
▪ On the one hand, large-scale machine industry was seen as the necessary prerequisite for socialism.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Adequate food and shelter are the minimum prerequisites of a decent life.
▪ Some knowledge of the French language is a prerequisite for employment there.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A minimal degree of integration is therefore a functional prerequisite of society.
▪ All too often these prerequisites were withheld, especially but not exclusively in the early stages of the Programme.
▪ As a practical matter, a receipt showing the amount of the expense is an absolute prerequisite to substantiating a travel expense.
▪ As for relations with the public, rudeness seems almost a prerequisite of government employment.
▪ At one time, physical presence was a prerequisite for first-hand experience.
▪ Having reliable data for the current year is, of course, a prerequisite of good budgets.
▪ The only important prerequisite is that there must be light: they do not thrive in dark tanks.
▪ What are the prerequisites before counselling another human being?
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Prerequisite

Prerequisite \Pre*req"ui*site\, a. Previously required; necessary as a preliminary to any proposed effect or end; as, prerequisite conditions of success.

Prerequisite

Prerequisite \Pre*req"ui*site\, n. Something previously required, or necessary to an end or effect proposed.

The necessary prerequisites of freedom. -- Goldsmith.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
prerequisite

1630s (n.) "something required beforehand," 1650s (adj.), "required beforehand," both from pre- + requisite.

Wiktionary
prerequisite

a. required as a prior condition of something else; necessary or indispensable. n. 1 Something that must be gained in order to gain something else 2 In education, a course or topic that must be completed before another course or topic can be started. May be colloquially referred to as a '''prereq'''.

WordNet
prerequisite
  1. adj. required as a prior condition or course of study

  2. n. something that is required in advance; "Latin was a prerequisite for admission" [syn: requirement]

Usage examples of "prerequisite".

Again, since concentration is the prerequisite for producing hypnotism, one who has not the power of concentration himself, and concentration which he can perfectly control, is not likely to be able to secure it in others.

Whether we choose mediumship, palmistry, astrology, meditation, imagery, visualization or any number of other possibilities, the only prerequisites necessary seem to be that we keep an open mind and make the effort to try something.

Nevertheless, the achievement of meditative stabilization is taught as a crucial prerequisite to gaining conceptually unstructured and unmediated insight into the fundamental nature of reality.

As historians institutionalized themselves into an academic profession, they came to believe conscientious research in the archives could confer dispassion: the prerequisite for winkling out the mysterious truths of cause and effect.

Solving the lookup tableitself arbitraryis prerequisite for my locating the particle of purpose, the smallest programmed machine in that regress of programmable machines making up living tissue.

De Quincey, whose acute and in many respects most valuable monograph on the poet touches its point of least trustworthiness in matters of this kind, declares roundly, and on the alleged authority of Coleridge himself, that the very primary and essential prerequisite of happiness was wanting to the union.

Apparently there were no overt prerequisites that would have determined who was, or who was not, qualified to learn how to become a man of knowledge.

Hence, there was never a conflict between the absence of overt prerequisites and the existence of undisclosed, covert prerequisites.

Does this not assume certain prerequisites regarding the projected plans of movement as directed by the leaders of the armies?

What are the political and military prerequisites to apply Rapid Dominance?

The resulting food surpluses, and (in some areas) the animal-based means of transporting those surpluses, were a prerequisite for the development of settled, politically centralized, socially stratified, economically complex, technologically innovative societies.

All these techniques, though developed for the exploitation of wild cereals, were prerequisites to the planting of cereals as crops.

But there were other chiliasts, and there were far more of these, who held that the physical destruction of the world was the indispensable prerequisite for the Advent, as had been unerringly foretold in various otherwise mutually contradictory ancient prophetic works.

As far as biological prerequisites for apple domestication were concerned, North American Indian farmers were like Eurasian farmers, and North American wild apples were like Eurasian wild apples.

She seemed so simple and easy-going that it was hard to believe that she had the prerequisite background in pediatrics, physiology, and clinical chemistry.